Land parcel 5964469

Area

361 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 418 m².

Zoning

O2 Z8: Georgian Conservation Areas (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 16 Nov 2022Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission is sought for repair, reinstatement and renovation works to existing upper floors (ground, first, second and third floors) of existing building in established office use, and change of use from night club to offices of area c 150 sq.m at basement level only, all to existing four-storey over basement terraced building, of area c.508 sq.m. which is a Protected Structure, (RPS Ref.425), at 127 Baggot Street Lower, Dublin 2 for Lenman Investments Limited. The repair and reinstatement works include the following:- at roof level, replace the Velux rooflights with conservation grade rooflights; at third floor level, the reinstatement of one ceiling and partition and 4 no. five-panel door-sets and architraves, and missing skirtings in each room; at second floor level, the reinstatement of missing skirtings in each room; at first floor, the reinstatement of missing skirtings and dado in each room, and the re-ordering of non-original toilet partitions in the return; at ground floor; the reinstatement of missing skirtings and dados in each room, the reinstatement of the stairs to re-connect basement and ground floor levels, and the re-ordering of non-original toilet partitions in the return and half-landing; at basement level, the removal of the front entrance lobby and reinstatement of the original area, wrought-iron steps, railings, and windows and the insertion of modern internal partitions. The works will also include the construction of a single-storey extension of c.16.5 sq.m. to the rear of the existing modern extension at rear basement level.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 5242/22

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement former townhouse, built c. 1800, now in use as offices. Double-pile slate roof, hipped to the east, set behind parapet wall with granite coping. Shouldered rendered chimneystack to the west party wall with lipped clay pots. Buff brick walls laid in Flemish bond, with granite course over painted rendered basement wall. Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with painted granite sills and timber sash windows; replacement three-over-three to the third floor, original six-over-six without horns and with historic glass to first and second floors, early twentieth-century single-pane to ground floor. Painted masonry pedimented Doric doorcase comprising; square-headed door opening flanked by engaged Doric columns supporting lintel entablature blocks and open-bed pediment housing spoked fanlight with slender sidelights flanking doorcase. Possibly original timber door with nine raised-and-fielded panels, brass door furniture opening onto platform and four granite steps bridging basement. Platform and basement area enclosed by original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron urn-head posts, with incorporated bootscraper to platform, set on granite plinth wall with replacement tiled steps providing access. Forming part of a continuous terrace of former townhouses lining the south side of Lower Baggot Street.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3234 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.